Novidades pra quem gosta de Master System!

New Sega Dumps - Nemesis 2/Gradius 2, Cutthroad Island, Scratch GolfWe've got 3 dumps releases today to keep others patient for the release of competition entries.

The Nemesis saga continues with the ultimate cosmic adventure...

Let's get started with the main course. After releasing Gradius last year, we've got a dump of the even rarer Nemesis 2 / Gradius 2 (???? 2) for the Master System / Samsung Gam*Boy. Released by Zemina in 1987, this version is also based on the original MSX1 classic.

For some reason the game always run in "Penguin mode" which was originally unlocked by plugging a Pengun Adventure cartridge in the second cartridge slot of a MSX. This could be an intentional modification that Zemina made, or perhaps a side-effect of the game reading unexpected data and interpreting it as Penguin Adventure. I'm sure people will find a way to re-enable the original Metalion ship.We've also got a Prototype of Cutthroad Island for the Game Gear, the brilliantly implemented fighting game by Software Creations, released in 1995.Finally we've got the US release of Scratch Golf for the Game Gear. Until now only the Japanese dump was available.

Seven new dumps today!

King's Valley / Jīnzìtǎ (金字塔) for the SG-1000 released in Taiwan by Aaronix. This game requires a special adapter released by DahJee that extend the SG-1000 memory to 8 KB (read more about the DahJee adapter for SG-1000). Else it would work on a normal Asian Master System. King's Valley is pretty much in the vein of pre-scrolling item collecting arcade game, Think Lode Runner meet Pac-Man in Egyptian tomb adventure theme. A very game by Konami.

ore Konami, extremely rare and sought after Nemesis / Gradius (그라디우스) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System. Did you even know it existed? Port of the Konami's revolutionary scrolling shooting game, based on the great MSX1 port. This is a good testament as to what SG-1000 type hardware could have achieved at the time if it had more dedicated developers. Note how the game title screen shows international title "Nemesis" but the box and Korean transcription use the "Gradius" name. And guess what we've got in reserve for tomo..*cough* later on.

The Cyber Shinobi [Proto] for Master System. This is an early build of the infamous Shinobi milking sequel. This version has different interface, no audio and supposedly less level.

Sky Jaguar (스카이쟈가) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Sega Master System, Korean released port of the Konami shooting game.

Poker Face Paul's Poker for Game Gear. This is the correctly sized US dump (previously available dump was overdumped with AFAIK unrelated garbage in the second half).

Pacar (パッカー) [40k map] for the SG-1000, mapper variant of the odd Pacar.

And finally we've got a short Strider rolling Demo for the Master System, taken from a newly found prototype cartridge.